Access to Safari

Apple used to make a version of Safari available to Windows users, which
was very useful to folk like us. I couldn't understand one respected
contributor's comments on one of my pages until I found out that Safari
handled the alignment of inline-block items (I can dig out the reference
if anyone's interested) differently from IE, Chrome and Firefox.
They stopped updating Safari for Windows some time ago, and it's now a
bit too old to be useful. What do Windows developers do to check what
things look like on a Mac/iPad, etc?
--
Phil, London

Philip Herlihy <thiswillbounceback@you.com> wrote on 21 Aug 2016 in
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets:
> Apple used to make a version of Safari available to Windows users, which
> was very useful to folk like us. I couldn't understand one respected
> contributor's comments on one of my pages until I found out that Safari
> handled the alignment of inline-block items (I can dig out the reference
> if anyone's interested) differently from IE, Chrome and Firefox.
>
> They stopped updating Safari for Windows some time ago, and it's now a
> bit too old to be useful. What do Windows developers do to check what
> things look like on a Mac/iPad, etc?
Ignore and hope for the best?
--
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

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Evertjan

8/21/2016 10:53:27 PM

In article <MPG.32240ce0e5e89ba8989730@news.eternal-september.org>,
Philip Herlihy <thiswillbounceback@you.com> wrote:
> Apple used to make a version of Safari available to Windows users, which
> was very useful to folk like us. I couldn't understand one respected
> contributor's comments on one of my pages until I found out that Safari
> handled the alignment of inline-block items (I can dig out the reference
> if anyone's interested) differently from IE, Chrome and Firefox.
>
> They stopped updating Safari for Windows some time ago, and it's now a
> bit too old to be useful. What do Windows developers do to check what
> things look like on a Mac/iPad, etc?
You can use online services like BrowserStack.
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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Barry

8/22/2016 12:14:21 AM

In article <MPG.32240ce0e5e89ba8989730@news.eternal-september.org>,
Philip Herlihy <thiswillbounceback@you.com> wrote:
> What do Windows developers do to check what
> things look like on a Mac/iPad, etc?
If they have no access to Macs, they might use VirtualBox? Or, as
Barry says, BrowserStack.
--
dorayme

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dorayme

8/22/2016 8:54:21 AM

In article <do_ray_me-90DF9F.18542122082016@46.sub-75-242-
165.myvzw.com>, do_ray_me@bigpond.com says...
>
> In article <MPG.32240ce0e5e89ba8989730@news.eternal-september.org>,
> Philip Herlihy <thiswillbounceback@you.com> wrote:
>
> > What do Windows developers do to check what
> > things look like on a Mac/iPad, etc?
>
> If they have no access to Macs, they might use VirtualBox? Or, as
> Barry says, BrowserStack.
Thanks. I'll look into BrowserStack (thanks Barry!). I've no Mac
experience recent enough (20+years) to be useful. Can you get a Mac OS
license free? Or at modest cost? A lot more trouble than installing a
Windows version of Safari!
--
Phil, London

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Philip

8/22/2016 10:37:52 AM

In article <XnsA66C91091034eejj99@194.109.6.166>,
exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net says...
>
> Philip Herlihy <thiswillbounceback@you.com> wrote on 21 Aug 2016 in
> comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets:
>
> > Apple used to make a version of Safari available to Windows users, which
> > was very useful to folk like us. I couldn't understand one respected
> > contributor's comments on one of my pages until I found out that Safari
> > handled the alignment of inline-block items (I can dig out the reference
> > if anyone's interested) differently from IE, Chrome and Firefox.
> >
> > They stopped updating Safari for Windows some time ago, and it's now a
> > bit too old to be useful. What do Windows developers do to check what
> > things look like on a Mac/iPad, etc?
>
> Ignore and hope for the best?
The default approach!
--
Phil, London

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Philip

8/22/2016 10:40:01 AM

In article <MPG.3224e6423f5d65a8989734@news.eternal-september.org>,
Philip Herlihy <thiswillbounceback@you.com> wrote:
> In article <do_ray_me-90DF9F.18542122082016@46.sub-75-242-
> 165.myvzw.com>, do_ray_me@bigpond.com says...
> >
> > In article <MPG.32240ce0e5e89ba8989730@news.eternal-september.org>,
> > Philip Herlihy <thiswillbounceback@you.com> wrote:
> >
> > > What do Windows developers do to check what
> > > things look like on a Mac/iPad, etc?
> >
> > If they have no access to Macs, they might use VirtualBox? Or, as
> > Barry says, BrowserStack.
>
> Thanks. I'll look into BrowserStack (thanks Barry!). I've no Mac
> experience recent enough (20+years) to be useful. Can you get a Mac OS
> license free? Or at modest cost? A lot more trouble than installing a
> Windows version of Safari!
No, you can't get a Mac OS license without a real Mac. You can run OS X
in a virtual machine on a Mac, but the EULA doesn't allow running it on
a VM on a non-Mac. That said, I'm sure there are lots of people ignoring
this restriction.
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
*** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***